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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-12
SENATE COMMITTEES.
The Members Who Will be on Them tc
Represent the Democracy.

Represent the democracy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-A caucus of
Democrats will be held here tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock for the purpose of
taking action on the report of the caucus
committee relative to the minority repre-
sentation on the committees of the Senate.
Following is a correct list of the Senators
who will represent the Democratic party on
the committees named, except that one or
two changes may be made on committees of
minor importance, such as the Committee
on the Revision of the Laws:
Appropriations-Mess Beck, Cockrell,
Call and German.
Agriculture -Messrs. George, Gibson and
Jones, the old members with Senator Bate
of Tennessee as a probability.
To Audit and Control the Contingent Ex-
penses of the Senate--Mr. Vance.
Civil Service and Retrenchment-No
change; Messrs. Voorhees,, Walthall, Will
son and Berry.
Commerce-No change; Messrs. Ransom,
German, Kenna and Gibson.
Education and Labor-No change; Messrs
Call, Pugh, Payne and Walthall.
Engrossed Bills-Messrs. Salisbury CHAIR
mani and Call
Enrolled Bills-No change: MIR. Colq uitt
To Examine the Several Branches of the
Civil Service-No change; MessrS Hamp-
ton and Gray.
Epidemic Diseases-No change; Messrs
Harris, Hampton, Eustis and Berry.
Finance-No change; Messrs. VOORHEES,,
Beck, Mcpherson, Harris and Vance.
Judiciary--No change; Messrs. Pugh,
Coke Vest and George.
Library-No change; Mr.. VOORHEES,.
Military Ahairs--Messrs. Cockrell Hamp-
ton. Walthall, the old members, with
probably Senator Bate as new member
Hoi MCD pttf-
Ter and Blackburn, the old members, with
Senator Gray as probable new member.
Privileges and Elections-No change
Messrs. Sauisb~ry, Vance, Pugh and Eustls.
Public Lands-No change; Messrs Nor
gan, Cockrell, Walthall and Berry.
Revision of the Laws-No change; Messrs.
Kenna and Wilson
Enthusiastically no change; Messrs.
Brown, Kenra. George and Blackburn.
Rues--No change; Messrs Harris and
Blackburn.
Revolutionary Claims-Mr. Coke, chair
man.
Committee on Private Land Claims
Mr.. Ransom, chairman.
From the fact that Mr.. Beck, of Ken
lucky, is the chairman of the caucus, it
was not thought necessary to give him a
Craftsmanship in addition.
SELECT COMMITTEES.
Auululonal Accommodations IOr bne
Library Messrs Voorhees, chairman; But
ler and Gibson, the old members.
To Inquire into Claims of Citizens against
Nicarauga-M -Messrs, Morgan chairman /;
Wilson and some new man.
River Front of Washngton--Mes Nc
Pherson, chairman; Ransom and some new
member.
Woman Suffrage-Mr. Coclsrell, chair
man; with Mr.. Brown and some new mem
ber
Centennial Of the Constitution and Dis
covely of Anierica-Messrs. Voorhees,, Cor
man and Eustis
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ESTABLISHED 1850.
J. III. EeTILL, Editor aud Proprietor.
WORK BEFORE CONGRESS
THE SENATE WILL ELECT ITS COM
MITTEES TO-DAY.

Little Beyond the Introduction of Bills
Apt to Occur in the Open Sessions
of the Senate this Messages
Making 800 Nominations to be Con-
sidered.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Senate is ex-
pected to formally elect its committees to-
morrow, thus ratifying the work which the
Republicans on their part have already per-
formed in caucus, and which the Democrats
will have accomplished before the body is
called to order.
Little besides the introduction Of bills is
likely to occur during the remainder of the
week in the open sessions of the Senate.
SIX HUNDRED NOMINATIONS.
The President has before him 365 messages
nominating postmasters alone, all of whom
have been appointed during the recess of
Congress and are already in office, which
messages he will send to the Senate as fast as
he can examine and sign them. Other recess
nominations, sufficient to bring the number
up to about six hundred are expected during
the week. Daily secret sessions are likely
to occur for the purpose of reading and re-
fetring these and it is possible that some
of the Cabinet nominations already sent to
the Senate, but not yet laid before the
body, may be reported for action before the
end of the week.
All the important committees will hold
meetings during the week for the purpose
of organization.
The daily sessions of Senate are likely to
be short ones.
IN THE HOUSE.
Short sittings and long adjournments
may be expected in the House.
The Speaker will appoint the Committee
on Rules within a day or two and recess
for two days will probably be taken in Or
der to allow that committee an opportunity
to consider and report upon the various
propositions that have already been intro
duced looking to amendments of the former
rules
Mr.. McCreary's resolution requiring gen.
eral appropriation bills to be reported to the
House by committees within sixty days
after their appointment during the long ses-
sion will probably be speedily and favorably
reported by the Committee ON Rules, and
the discussion following the report may
consume the time of the House for a day or
two There is also talk of an aggressive
movement by the friends of some of the
House officials recently displaced which may
enliven the proceedings during the latter
part of the week.
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SOCIALISTS ON TOP.
A Resolution Passed Declaring a Boy
colt on Milwaukee Beer

A Resolution Passed Declaring a Boy
colt on Milwaukee Beer.
New York, Dec. 1.-THE Socialist pro.
gressive element was topmost at the meet
ing of the Central Labor Union to-day, its
adherents succeeding at length i'll ad-
mitting the Progressive Musical Union,
which had been opposed by the
Knights of Labor and Carl Sahn
Club. A resolution boycotting Milwaukee
beer was passed unanimously. This action
was taken at the instance of the Brewers
Union for the purpose of helping the
brewers workmen in Milwaukee, who have
struck or been locked out. The resolution
declared that workmen "had been slapped
in their faces by insolent money bag bosses" :"
and that, therefore, they should be pun
ished. The resolution and the action there
on is ordered sent to all the Central Labor
unions
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UNDOUBTEDLY DANGEROUS.
LIBERALIsM's DIssIDENTs.

A Circular Which Says Reconciliation
With Gladstone is Impossible.
LONDON, Dec 1.-The secretaries of ths
Dissident Liberal societies, after private
conference, have issued circular declaring
that reports from every part of the country
show that the Unionists have made great
progress during the last few months, and
give promise of continued success of th,
Umonist cause. The reports, the circulal
further says, concur in declaring that everJ
hope of reunion with the Gladstonians be
fore the next election must be abandoned
and alliance with the Conservatives main
tanned until the question of union shall have
been finally settled
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BREWERIEs A NUISANCE.
The Prohibition Law in Kansas to be
Enforced with Vim.

TOPEKA, KAN, Dec. u.--Judge Brewer,
of the United States Circuit Court, yester-
day issued decree declaring the Walruff
brewery at Lawrence common nuisance,
and directing the United States Marshal to
shut it up and abandon it, The decree also
perpetually enjoins the brewery from manu-
featuring or selling any intoxicating
liquors. This is the first brewery that has
been declared a nuisance under the prohibit
tory law Of Kansas and the decree Is in ac-
cordance with the late decision Of the
United States Supreme Court on the pro-
bibition question
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caught the Turkeys Napping.
From the Br4lns1oici tGa.) Advertiser.

From the Br1utstcick tGd.) advertiser.
Satilla Bluff has a famous hunter who
bears the name of John Johns. Some time
since he went out and brought home four
young wild turkeys. Last Sunday evening
he came upon flock of full grown ones
ard quietly watched their movements until
night, when they ''went to roost.r As soon
as they settled down for the night TO slum
ber he went home and got his rife and cama
back to the scene and waited patiently for
the moon to rise, and then began his
slaughter. One by one they came down at
the crack Of his gun until he had five fine
specimens, which he took home with him
and sold them the next day at 75c. apiece.
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PLYMOUTH'S PULPIT.
Rev. Berry Causes a Sensation by De-
clining the Passionate.

New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE small oongre-
cation present at Plymouth Church, in
Brooklyn, this morning. was unpleasantly
surprised by Rev. DIR. Lyman Ahbott's an
nouncement from the pulpit that Rev.
Charles A. Berry, of Wolverhampton, Eng,
had declined the call extended TO him by
Plymouth Church. After lengthy predatory
remarks, in which he deplored the announce
ment he had to make, Dr. Abbott en-
hghtened the audience, not half dozen of
whom knew what was coming, by reading
the following cablegram:
To Professor Rossiter W. raymond.
Charles Albert Berry greets Plymouth, appre.
ciates its confidence, reciprocates its affection,
prays for its prosperity, but cannot accept the
pastorate. Home claims are ineXorable; duty
here commands. Letter mailed you God bless
and guide you.
The announcement was an unforeseen
blow, and much excitement followed. Sew
eral ladies in the congregation gave way to
their feelings in tears
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Colouitt on Temperance.

NEW YORK, Dec 1l.--Senator A. II. Col
quit, of Georgia, addressed the American
temperance Union at Chickering Hall to-
day. He emphatically declared that prohi-
bition was not dead IN Georgia, despite its
recent defeat, and he was equally sure there
would be no compromise in his State.
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A Second McGlvnn

Pentecost this morning resigned his position
as pastor of the Belleville Avenue Congre-
gational church, of this city. His promi-
nence in the labor movement, and his can
didacy for Mayor of the city on that ticket
at the last'charter election, as well as his
utterances in regard to the Chicago An
archists, had estranged him from some MEM
hers of bis congregation.
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A DANGEROUS LuNATIc.
FALLIERES GIVES UP.
President Carnot Asks Senator Tirard
to Form q Cabinet.

President Carnot Asks Senator Tirard
to Form a Cabinet.
PARIS, Dec. I'm. Fallieres went to tbs
Elysee to-day and informed President Car
not that he had fou' 4 it impossible to form
Cabinet on the basis of concentration of
the Republican groups, end had therefore
abandoned tho attempt. ". Lockerey and
several other statesmen TO whom M. Fall
Heres made overtures declined TO take Office,
The President has charged Senator Tirard
to try TO form Cabinet.
NJ. Lockerey refused to join Cabinet un-
der M Tilard At meeting of the latter's
colleagues, it was decided that it would be
impossible to form Ministry without the
assistance Of tie Radical Left. NJ. Tirard
will therefore abandon the task. The i'm.
preston prevails that M. Flouquet will be
summoned to form Cabinet.
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FLOOD IN THE ALABAMA.
Driftwood Carries Away a Span of a
Railroad Bridge.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, Dec. l1.-Heavy
rains during the last few days have caused
a rapid rise in the Alabama river. The rail-
road bridge of the Louisville & Nashville
road, four miles north of this city, has for
some weeks been undergoing processof com
plete rebuilding. This morning about II
o'clock the draw span was swept away by
driftwood breaking down the false work un-
derneath. Trains northward and southwark
are compelled to transfer by boat. A car
penter employed on the bridge, and who was
trying to break the force of the driftwood,
was swept off and drowned.
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The Committee on Elections.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-Speaker Carlisle
will ask the House tomorrow to appoint
the Committee ON Elections for this present
Congress. He will not suggest any special
way of appointing it. He will can Mr..
Crisp, OF Georgia, to the chair, aud let the
House select the committee Just as it
pleases. He is making good progress with
the other committees. They will all he
ready before the Christmas recess.
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Bovcotting Coal Companies.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.-THE Building
Trades Council of this city, which has a
membership Of about "A 900, has decided to
take up the boycott in defense of the strik-
ing anthracite coal miners. A committee
has been appointed to canvass the entire
city and ascertain just what dealers handle
coal mined by the companies holding out
against the demands of the men
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North CarolIna,s ApoetolIc.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 11.--A dispatch from
Rome TO Cardinal Gibbons announces the
appointment Of Rr. Rev Lee Haid as Vicar
Apostolic Of North Carolina. He is now
abbot Of st. Marys Abbey in CASTOR county,
North Carolina, monastery controlled by
the Benedictine order
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Killed by an ELECTRIC Shock.

CINCINNATI, Dec li.--James O'Connell,
stage manager of Charles Andrews Michael
Strogoff Combination, was struck dead by
an electric current which came down the
bell wire when he rang down the curtain at
Robinson's Theatre this evening He was
26 years old. Miss Collins, whom he was to
marry, was almost heart-broken by the
avppt
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AN ACCOUNTING WANTED.
The Executive Board of the Knights O
Labor Must Report.

Labor Must Report.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. ia meeting of
representative men from nearly all the local
assemblies of the Knights of Labor was held
to-day at which resolutions were adopted
recommending that all local asseblies make
demand upon the General Executive Board
for an itemized account of all the expendi-
lures made by that body during the past
year, so that they may know where and how
$500000 was disbursed.
If the General Executive Board should
fail or decline to render such account, it is
proposed to compel it to do so by law
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A TARIFF CLINCHER.
The Effect of Free Quinine Pointed Out
by Mr.. Mckenzie.

Uy MI. MCAbuAlb.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1l.-Ex-Representa-
tive Mckenzie of Kentucky, who put
through the bill putting quinine on the free
list, thinks the effect of that act is good
argument in favor of free raw
materials. The protectionist critics of
Inc PRESIDENTS recommendations allege that
Ine effects of free trade would be: First, to
disturb, and possibly destroy our home in
oustries, by flooding the country with the
product of the pauper labor of Europe; and
second, to increase the prices
OF The products in question after crushing
out our manufacturers. Now, as Mr.. Nc
henzle points out whereas there were three
factories in this country manufacturing
quln!He when this bill became law, there
are now fifteen, and the product never was
80 good, While prices never Were so cheap.
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rrisoo war Is a Convenient.

SAN Francisco, Dec. 1.-THE State
Democratic Club has decided to appoint a
special committee to go to Washington and
endeavor to obtain the support of promi-
nent Democrats in the movement to hold
the National Democratic Convention in this
city. Two members of this club will start
East on this mission at once.
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LONDON, Dec. 11--Mr. Bradlaugh will
notify Lord Salisbury that Immediately
upon the reassembling of Parliament he
will move that a committee be appointed 10
inquire whether or not Lord Salisbury sent
a check to assist the fair trade meeting in
Trafalgar Square in 1886.
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Claims of Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-The committee
here trying to impress ON Congress the
justice Of their claim that they should be
allowed office rent and other expenses.
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STAUNToN, VA, Dec. 1.-two freight
trains collided on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad to-day near Clifton Forge. Three
men we're killed, one Of whom was Con-
ductor Fry. Both trains were wrecked.
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Bisnnarck,s Dvspensia.

BERLIN, Dec. 1l.--Prince Bismarck is
suffering from indigestion and nervous
headache.
Count Herbert Bismarck has arrived at
Fliedrlchsruhe.
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twenty-five Drowned.

LONDON, Dec. t1.--Twenty-two persons
were drowned in recent hurricane off tho
Orkney Islands
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UNDOUBTEDLY CANCEROUs.

Doctors Hope that 1t Will Not Impede
the Princes Breathing for Years.
BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE Tagbtatt says il
has authority for the statement that recent
medical examinations proved TINT the heal
ing process is progressing favorably in the
Crown Princes throat.
The National Gazette announces that it
is the express wish of the Grown Prince
that no change be made in the customary
winter entertainments on account Of ha~
illness.
UNDOUBTEDLY DANGEROUS.
LONDON, Dec. 11.--A dispatch from San
Reno to the Standard says that the growth
in the German Crown Princes throat is un-
doubtedly OF cancerous nature, but that
it is so small that the doctors are hopeful
that it will be long time, perhaps years,
before it will impede the Princes breathing.
, 1887-09-22

ut looks like copperplate, " remarked
a prominent teacher of penmanship to a
reporter, as he exhibited a handsome
specimen of chirography from among the
many specimens in his large collection.
at couldn't have been written very
rapidly" suggested the reporter.
ut w a Thoughts rapidly as the
writer could make his fingers move"
Probably he is a professional penman;
bookkeeper or teacher, hkely?"
Neither, and he only learned to write
four years ago. He was a soldier. Dur
ing the war he lost his right arm. After
the war he became a travelling salesman.
Five years ago he lost a leg in a railroad
accident, and then took up penmanship.
He had to learn it all over again. But
by perseverance you see how much he
has accomplished. He is the secretary of
n mining company down town and draws
$1,000 a year salary. One odd thing
about this is that he never was a good
penman when he had both arms. But
in learning to use his left hand he ac-
quired the art of making all of his char
acters plainly. He made them slowly at
first, and now he can't write badly, no
matter how rapidly he works."
did you ever know of n mans learn
ing TO use both hands equally well?"
"There are a few instances on record.
l heard of a man once who not only
wrote with both hands, but wrote with
them ut the same time and a different
sentence with each hand. He was the
wonder of the profession, but he was
more of a freak than anything else. Am
bidexterity is a great accomplishment, but
such experiences as that are not vala-
able, save as curiosities. New York
Mail and Express.
, 1887-09-22

Among the standard medicines quoted
in the medical books of Nuremburg OF
200 years ago are portions of the en-
balmed bodies of mans flesh, brought
from the neighborhood of Memphis,
where there are many bodies that nave
been buried for more than 1000 years,
called mumia, which have been en-
balmed with costly salves and balsams,
and smell strongly Of myrrh, aloes and
other fragrant things"
The learned doctors of France, Ger
many and Italy all made great use of
this eccentric drug, and in the Seven
teenth century grievous complaints arose
of its adulteration. NJ. Poinet, chief
a~pothecary to the French king, records
that the kings physician went to Alex
andria to judge for himself in this mat
ter, and, having male friends with a
Jewish dealer in mummIes, was admitted
to his storehouse, where he saw piles of
bodies. He asked what kind of bodies
were used and how they were prepared.
The Jew informed him that he took such
bodies as he could get, whether they died
Of some disease or some c~ontagion. He
embalmed them with the sweepings Of
various old drugs, myrrh, aloes, pitch
and gum; wound them about with a cere
cloth and her dried them in an oven,
after which he sent them to Europe, and
marveled to see the Christians were
lovers of such flthiness. But even this
revelation did not suffice to put mummy
physic out Of fashion, and we know that
Francis l, of France, always carried with
him a well filed medicine chest, of which
this was the principal ingredient. Nine
teenth Century.
, 1887-09-22

A novel fashion a, seaside resorts this
season has been the Introduction among
very rich women of a drinking glass
especially designed for the purpose of
imbibing the particular kind or kinds of
mineral water that milady affects. These
glasses, the first of which was, of course,
imported from Paris, are of various de-
signs more or less elaborate, some of
them revealing the most exquisite work
manship. They are fastened to a gold
or silver chain and worn dangling from
the belt. The custom, which is a new
one, is naturally in danger of being car
ried to excess and serving as an excuse
for vulgar display. This is true of all
new fashions; but, on the other hand, it
cannot be denied that a private and ele-
CANT glass from which to quaf sulphur
or Hawthorne water is vastly more de-
sirable and agreeable than drinking the
same liquids out of a coarse tumbler that
has been pressed by the lips of thousands
of the COMMON herd.
And since the imagination plays so
large n role III our actual experiences, it
may be questioned whether the obnoxious
flavor, Of mineral waters generally would
not be materially modified for the better
by the prolonged use of these individual
aesthetic glasses. We all know that
champagne taken out of a tin cup or a
too! i mug becomes at once insipid and
disagreeable. From a logical standpoint,
therefore, and in inverse ratio, even sui
phur water might become palatable in
proportion to the magnificence of the
drinking glass. At Saratoga a lady well
known in New York city has one of
those glasses that is a marvel of art. 1t
=. $50 II a. -
in the shape Of an ordinary tumbler.
Around the edge is a double row of tur-
quoises set in a gold rim, and below this
q number of tiny diamonds. The chain
that attaches this costly trife to the
wearer's side is of alternating links of
embossed gold and deep blue enamel,
also inlaid with jewels. Strange to say,
the lady is hardly satisfied with it, how
ever, INT thinks of sending abroad for
II of yet greater price.@Clara LAMA in
Kansas City Journal.
, 1887-09-22

Some 600 or 700 fishermen of New
foundland have decided to emigrate, ow-
ing to the distress caused by the failure
of Labrador and Newfoundland fisheries
and the i'll feeling engendered by inter-
national complications, and will proba-
bly, locate fisheries on the Choumaign
and Aleutian Islands of Alaska. These
islands are in the immediate vicinity of
the Goldfish banks of Alaska, and there is
no reason why Newfoundland men can
not make their new homes upon them.
The climate is nc worse than that of their
present homes, while the supply of fish
is reported to be immense. On Queen
Charlotte and other islands in British Co
lumbar waters there will be room for
many families. The waters of the sound
and in the vicinity Of the United States
boundary line TEEN with black cod and
halibut.-Frank Leslie's.